The Politics and Poetics of Exile
Edward Said in Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9250208 |
|---|---|
| Authors | P T Zeleza (0000-0002-0737-1862, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1-22 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Research in African Literatures (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-5210 • E-ISSN: 1527-2044 |
| Publisher | Indiana University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2979/ral.2005.36.3.1 |
| OpenAlex | W2145118586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper focuses on one central trope of Edward Said's work—exile. Exile looms large in Said's personal, professional, and political life as an existential and epistemological condition, as a spatial and temporal state of being, belonging, and becoming, and in its material and metaphorical contexts. Said spent a large part of his early exiled life in Africa, in Egypt, and Egypt remained an important place where he would frequently return and the Egyptian academic and popular media provided a critical platform for his impassioned performances as Palestine's and the Arab world's leading public intellectual. Exile has also been the fate, welcome to some and unwelcome to many others, of numerous African intellectuals. Said's experiences and reflections on exile illuminate the exilic condition of the postcolonial world and offer us an opportunity to reflect on the dynamics and implications of African literary exile
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Existentialism · Literature · Palestine · Poetics · Poetry · Political science · Politics · Sociology · State (computer science) · Trope (literature) · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Exile and Nostalgia in Albanian Lyric Poetry since 1750
Reconfiguring Others’
Journeys and landscapes of forced migration
Abagyenda bareeba. Those who Travel, See’
In exile but not at peace’ 1
Out of place’? An auto-ethnography of refuge and postcolonial exile
The moral politics of emigration
Black Diasporic Subjectivity and Lacanian Lack of Home
"The Voice of Egypt"
The Voice of Egypt
The Dream of Deracination
Dialectics of Exile
Reflections on Edward Said
Remembering Said
Edward Said
Requiem for Edward Said
The African Academic Diaspora in the United States and Africa
Being Grateful to Edward Said
The condition we call exile
Literature in Exile
In Search of Africa
Exile and Its Discontents
Neither Here nor There
Nous les Colonisés
The Tribulations of Undressing the Emperor
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |